And for further accelerated zarr io, especially with zarr’s new sharding feature, check out zarrs-python: zarrs-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ , co-developed by our very own developers Philipp Angerer and Ilan Gold along with Lachlan Deakin from @physicsanu.bsky.social

Hardware virtual textures look like a marvelous tool for large terrains or volume compression.
Alas, they are in a sad state in terms of performance and usability. And strangely, the (very bad) binding perfs varies a lot with the driver.
→ read here: hal.science/hal-05138369
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